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How to stop swearing this year: 'I always realise a millisecond too late'I try to find alternative curses. “Sausage bacon egg and chips” is actually endearing
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Modern tribes: the amateur genealogistMy great-grandmother Smith used to treasure these slippers from the days when her mother was a famous Spanish dancer whose beauty inspired Thomas Hardy -
Family life: My grandmother, the poet, Pearl’s a Singer, Aunt June’s blackberry muffinsReaders’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes -
My lay life coach’s call to spice things up stokes my new year’s positivityWe should never postpone happiness, love, good deeds or anything that matters. If we do so, it is unlikely to happen as planned – or at all
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Nine ways to deal with the death of a family petFrom planning how to say goodbye and thinking about the disposal to creating a memory book
opinion
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Am I a bad mother? You asked Google – here’s the answerEvery day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the most common queries
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Artificial sweeteners might be fattening us up, say scientists. It’s time to ditch the diet drinks, gen up and take responsibility for bad food habitsHere’s the real recipe for healthy eating: a big fat serving of education
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Finding kids' strengths (and why being good at singing isn't the same as being a superstar)We live in a success-obsessed society that narrowly defines strengths as things we are good at. That’s not the whole story
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Spare a thought for those left behind after the Christmas exodusThe festive gathering gives us all plenty to moan about, but for some it’s a beloved injection of family time. If only it could be spread through the year more
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There’s no point in false machismo when giving birth when pain relief is so close to handHaving a baby? Don’t be brave – take the drugs
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A new year that changed me: realising I wanted to live, and giving up heroinThe New Year’s Eve I spent with my family when I was a junkie was horrific. But their contempt for the state I was in helped me to finally change
advice
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Private livesPrivate livesAm I stupid to continue an affair with a married man?He says he loves me but he also loves his wife. I feel used
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Dr Dillner’s dilemmasDr Dillner’s dilemmasIs too much protein bad for you?The market for protein supplements is now mainstream – but many of us already eat twice as much protein as the World Health Organisation recommends
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Dear MariellaDear MariellaHow can I get used to my boyfriend’s low sex drive?Don’t, says Mariella Frostrup. Your partner’s low libido will always make you feel unappealing. Either he must get help or you should find a better match
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Sexual healingSexual healingMy long-term girlfriend is in love with a woman but wants us to stay togetherShe has recently started a sexual relationship with a woman and refuses to understand why I am upset by the loss of the deep intimacy we shared
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Problem solvedProblem solvedMy husband often goes on holiday and leaves me with our childWe live abroad and have no family support. I think he’s terribly selfish but when I complain, he thinks I’m being unreasonable. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
love & sex
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‘Romantic realism’: the seven rules to help you avoid divorceThe new year is peak time for breakups. But the emotional skills that help a relationship endure can be learned
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My long-term girlfriend is in love with a woman but wants us to stay togetherShe has recently started a sexual relationship with a woman and refuses to understand why I am upset by the loss of the deep intimacy we shared
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How can I get used to my boyfriend’s low sex drive?Don’t, says Mariella Frostrup. Your partner’s low libido will always make you feel unappealing. Either he must get help or you should find a better match
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Blind date: ‘I thought he was going in for a kiss’Did 23-year-old office manager Alice hit it off with carpenter Nick, 23?
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Am I stupid to continue an affair with a married man?He says he loves me but he also loves his wife. I feel used
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Does your boss keep emailing you 24/7? The French have a solution for youMinisters in France decided it was time to pass a ‘right to disconnect’ law to free workers from their ‘electronic leashes’. We need that in the US, too
‘As she is born, part of me is dying’ – how becoming a mother changes you